Cheap Travel for Women is a travel blog of a Filipino woman who wants to teach travelers that you don't have to be rich to see the world.
Budget or cheap food, transportation, accommodation tips for your travel to the Philippines, Asia, and Europe.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Mohinga is Burma's national breakfast dish which is basically rice noodles in fish soup. served with spring onions, coriander, and crispy onions and fritters for that added crunch.

Eat. Mohinga.

Pray. Shwe Dagon Pagoda.

Enshrined within this golden stupa are relics of past four Buddhas: staff, water filter, robe, and strands of hair that is why Shwe Dagon is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda for the Burmese.

Pray. Shwe Dagon.

Love. Thanaka.

Cosmetics for Burmese women is a paste made from ground bark which they apply on their faces, and sometimes their arms. Aside from their aesthetic purposes, it also serves as a cooling agent against the scorching heat of the sun.

Burmese woman wearing thanaka

Bark used for Thanaka

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Eat Pray Love Sundays is a series I'm doing, highlighting one destination and how it nourishes travelers and locals alike.

"Eat" features a location's food; how it nourishes the physical body.

"Pray" pertains to anything about worship or nourishing one's spirit.

'Love" is such a broad topic that it covers the rest--people, nature, culture. Those that nourish the soul.